Coming off midnight watch.
A few stars, but mostly cloudy with scattered squalls. One had a little over 30 knots in it about a half hour ago. I suspect our conservative sail choices today will lose a bunch of time, but we'll find out in the morning positions. It's been a nice day of sailing whatever the production.
The big news at the moment is happening about 100 miles North East of us. The Santa Cruz 37 Tiburon has struck something, disabling her rudder. She is taking on water, but in manageable amounts. The emergency steering is proving ineffective and she's drifting roughly toward Oahu at only 1.3 knots. The dramatically reduced speed means that they will run out of fresh water long before arriving. More well- placed boats are being notified so that they can provide extra water and any assistance possible. This is one of those cases where sailors just have to look out for each other, because there's nobody else out here.
Good luck to those guys and we'll update you on how they're getting along when we have something different.
Whiskey Delta Bravo 2898 VALIS out
Yep, I'm sailing the PacCup again for 2014. We'll be covering over 2,000 miles and two weeks in Paul Elliot's beautiful VALIS, starting in San Francisco Bay and ending up in Kaneohe, Oahu. Our only connection to you will be via a puny satellite connection, so I can't send pics till we hit land, but if it all works right I should be able to update this blog once in a while. I look forward to reading your comments when I get back. Aloha! -Other Paul
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